Category: Bea Arthur

Joey at the Drive In here… thinking it would be such a nice treat to offer up a brief yet deliciously fun post from the snack bar. What better way to enjoy an intermission between my long winded writing than to just get to the point and tickle your vintage TV taste buds with a little amuse-bouche!

5) Carroll O’ Connor is the inimitableArchie Bunker who likes either chicken croquettes or a tuna sandwich with an orange on the side and a Twinkie for desert!… in his lunch box.And lovable Edith (Jean Stapleton) buys him Hhm hhm hhm ( Cling peaches) in heavy syrup when they’re on sale or serves up rice pudding with a drop of milk on top unless he doesn’t ask for it. Dingbat!!!! And of course there’s always beer…

I just adore Bea Arthur, from her performance as Vera Charles along side Lucille Ball in 1974 Mamesinging ‘Bosom Buddies’… to her performance as Edith Bunker’s cousin Maude Finley who was on her fourth husband and a raging liberal breaking the mold of the American Television Housewife…

Or her portrayal of the erudite and snarky Dorothy Zbornak on The Golden Girls.

Below she sings Irving Berlin’s ‘What’ll I Do’, a song that melts me into a puddle, and a duet I’ve done with my Siamese cat Daisy…